Once again, an Alaska leader is in a battle with federal officialdom more than 3,000 miles away on the opposite coast of the North American continent. This time it is Gov. Mike […]
Forgotten tribe
Goodbye Duane
The saga of Ose Mountain appears to be over. All indications are that the 78-year-old Duane Ose has left the state and given up on his attempt to reclaim the remote Alaska […]
Ose rescue
Seventy-eight-year-old Duane Ose – the man who sold his Alaska hideaway on a British reality TV show only to try to steal it back – was in the Fairbanks hospital Tuesday […]
Stranger than fiction
Only in Alaska can reality prove stranger than reality TV, and when the two converge, the outcome is near unbelievable. Consider the case of 78-year-old Duane Ose who off and on […]
Locals only
Most Alaska moose and caribou hunters headed for the Nelchina Basin next month best start honing their map reading skills, invest in a good GPS or maybe both given new federal hunting […]
Dopey dogs
Alaska’s biggest sporting events have yet to hit the trail and already there is a doping controversy. This time it involves the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race from Fairbanks to […]
Warm North!
The temperature at the airport in International Falls, Minn., hit 11 degrees below zero at 5 a.m. Tuesday. It was a balmy 32 degrees in Anchorage at the same hour, and 9 […]
Alaskaland entry fee
A cash-strapped state of Alaska long looking for a way to make a buck off non-resident workers and tourists might turn its attention to France which is about to impose an “eco-tax” […]
The prize
Thirty years ago, the Anchorage Daily News won a Pulitzer Prize for chronicling the problems of rural Alaska in a series titled “People in Peril.” “Across the state, the Eskimos, […]
Cash cows
Almost 3 million people visited Alaska’s national parks and preserves last year, and if a new study out from the National Park Service can be believed, they were worth $678.02 per head […]
